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Is Silicon Valley Worth the Cost for Tech Startups and Bootstrappers?

Is Silicon Valley Worth the Cost for Tech Startups and Bootstrappers?

By Bob Warfield on January 11, 2013

There’s always some article or other in the blogosphere rambling on about why XYZ will be the next Silicon Valley–they’re quite popular.  I just read an interesting piece that has some clues about the true costs of living here (yes, I live at least near SV and have worked most of my career in SV). […]

Posted in Business | Tagged bootstrapping, content marketing, Hacker News, Houston, Silicon Valley, startups | 3 Responses

A Solo Bootstrapping Odyssey:  2012 Was The Year I Quit My Day Job

A Solo Bootstrapping Odyssey: 2012 Was The Year I Quit My Day Job

By Bob Warfield on January 9, 2013

For those who like Bootstrapping Case Studies, here is mine. 2012 was the year I moved on from a Day Job and started doing my Bootstrapped Company CNCCookbook full-time.  I’m not the first to do so, and certainly not the last, but I thought I’d provide a historical background and then some data on CNCCookbook in 2012 […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Agile Backlog, bootstrapping, CNCCookbook, Day Job, Entrepreneurship, Silicon Valley, startups, strategy, venture | 5 Responses

Most Hiring and Investment Decisions are Terrible Due to Pattern Matching

Most Hiring and Investment Decisions are Terrible Due to Pattern Matching

By Bob Warfield on November 27, 2012

One often hears venture capitalists refer to their decision making process as “pattern matching“.  This reference to machine learning (and a fuzzy match really ought to be pattern recognition, but hey, the techies aren’t using this language so much) is intended to sound smart.  One envisions coupling years of hard-earned experienced with the biggest neural […]

Posted in Business | Tagged machine learning, Pattern matching, Silicon Valley, startup hiring, startups, strategy | 1 Response

Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-06-15

Enterprise Headlines and Highlights, 2012-06-15

By Dennis Moore on June 15, 2012

Highlights of enterprise software and solutions news from the past two weeks.  Acquisitions, lawsuits, IT failures, Oracle’s cloud announcements (yawn!), some humor, and and Larry joins the twitterverse @larryellison (but still just one tweet!). Yammer Agrees to Sell Itself to Microsoft Business-software company Yammer Inc. agreed to sell itself to Microsoft Corp. for $1.2 billion, […]

Posted in Business, Technology / Software | Tagged Dennis Moore, ibm, microsoft, news, oracle, Oracle Corporation, Silicon Valley, workday, yammer

Memorial Day, Emergency Room Doctors, Minimum Viable, Pivoting, and More

Memorial Day, Emergency Room Doctors, Minimum Viable, Pivoting, and More

By Bob Warfield on May 28, 2012

Memorial Day has me reflecting on various things I’ve read or thought about recently.  I know there have been wars and fallen since, but I always think of World War II and the Greatest Generation  when I think of Memorial Day.  The Greatest Generation is a term Tom Brokaw coined that refers to that generation […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Memorial Day, Silicon Valley, strategy, World War II

Canada’s Next Five Years

Canada’s Next Five Years

By Jevon MacDonald on April 11, 2012

1997-2012: Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt. 2012-2020: Optimism, Opportunity, Execution. I’ve been bullish for a while now, it’s no secret. It was 5 years ago that I was writing off VC in Canada and explaining how startups needed to step up to create an environment to bring them back. And like a bowl of Sea Monkeys, the […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Canada, education, Silicon Valley, startups, vc funding, venture funding

How Pinterest Became What Flickr Failed To

How Pinterest Became What Flickr Failed To

By Jeff Nolan on March 27, 2012

Like a lot of people I have been fascinated by the explosive growth that Pinterest has experienced. At first curiosity, Pinterest is now a full blown phenomena that has jumped from women planning their weddings, or wishing they were planning a wedding, and foodies to mainstream consciousness. Businesses are openly embracing Pinterest and media organizations […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Crunchbase, Flickr, pinterest, Silicon Valley, Yahoo | 1 Response

Facebook IPO Lessons

Facebook IPO Lessons

By Jeff Nolan on February 2, 2012

Like most people, I had the opportunity to review Facebook’s IPO filing yesterday and admit that, like Apple’s recent earnings announcement, this is pretty damn impressive. Here are a couple of lessons worth reinforcing: 1) People’s view of what is normal and acceptable in emergent online activities is constantly evolving. What Facebook deserves a lot […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Entrepreneurship, Facebook, IPO, Silicon Valley, vc, zuckerberg

Economics On The Ground in Silicon Valley

Economics On The Ground in Silicon Valley

By Denis Pombriant on October 21, 2011

The economy appears to be on the minds of magazine editors these days and no wonder.  With the stimulus running out the economy appears to be headed south again.  This contradicts my experience last week in Silicon Valley where the CEOs I met with said they were, 1)   Raising more money, not because they need […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Current Affairs, economics, keynes, salesforce.com, Silicon Valley, stimulus, The Economist, The New Yorker, unemployment

Common Worries Among Corporations and Governments

Common Worries Among Corporations and Governments

By Evangelos Simoudis on October 18, 2011

Corporations and governments are starting to worry about a common set of related issues. During the last two months I was fortunate to participate in several conversations with top corporate executives and foreign government officials all of whom are visiting Silicon Valley with increasing frequency. The conversations covered topics ranging from innovation and the rapid […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged government, Silicon Valley, United States

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